The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, like the rest of the public sector, is facing a period of significant financial challenge. Within the context of an ambitious growth agenda, firmly rooted in ensuring no-one is left behind, the Council’s care, support and public health services have radically rethought their operating models to deliver the outcomes people need, within the budget that is available.

The Council’s new structure creates a strong commissioning core, working in partnership with frontline operations and key external partners, and nowhere is this transformation more significant than in Care and Support. Whilst we have developed specific plans under our Transformation Programme to deliver savings, it is clear that the scale of change will require the organisation to develop new skills, behaviours and ways of working.

This is a great opportunity to be instrumental in reshaping a local authority with a good, practical history of delivering for its community, and to equip it for a more complex and challenging future.

The Service Development and Integration block has brought together a range of services under the banner of Care and Support that had previously operated separately. We have preserved the identity of children’s, adults’ and healthy lifestyle commissioning, but created an integrated support function to drive the collaboration and shared approach to outcomes that must define our future working, not only in the local authority but with our health and social care partners.

Integral to achieving this vision of collaboration and partnership working will be our new Principal Manager, Performance and Intelligence. This individual will have proven experience of working in health and/or social care performance and intelligence functions and will be the key to ensuring that we have robust performance and intelligence frameworks in place. This individual will also lead and manage a rolling programme of needs analyses to inform commissioning plans across the Care and Support service block.

Key responsibilities as part of this role include: -

Lead a team of Performance and Intelligence Officers ensuring that the performance and information needs of the Council’s Care and Support service block are met.

Lead on the development of a rolling programme of population needs analysis and ensure that these are statistically sound, meaningfully interpreted and, in conjunction with Senior Commissioners, ensure that they are a routine part of the Commissioning Cycle and used to inform the development of long-term Commissioning Strategies.

Lead on the development and production of a robust and interactive Care and Support Performance Management Framework, ensuring that is consistent with the wider framework for the Council and reflects the Councils’ vision.

Lead on ensuring that complex statistical analysis, including demand modelling, is conducted and that this is presented in an accessible, meaningful way – using infographic and data-visualisation techniques.

Play a key role in ensuring that intelligence is used in commissioning and the design of services – both internal and external – and lead distinct change projects where required.

We are seeking a driven individual and a team player, willing to collaborate internally and externally to achieve results. The successful candidate will have an excellent understanding of effective performance frameworks and demonstrable experience of leading on needs analyses and data insight. Experience of policy development in health and/or social care will be essential.

If you think you have the drive and skills to meet the demands of this new, exciting and challenging role, then we would be delighted to hear from you.

Deliver our best every day – and do what we promise

Respond in a prompt, positive way to our community’s needs

Inspire others with our attitudes and actions

Value people for who they are and what they can do

Engage with others to improve our resilience and flexibility

We particularly welcome applicants who live in the Borough of Barking and Dagenham.